MORE BACKUP BUZZ

The Great Waldo - Increasing Security

CrashPlan has a home plan for unlimited data on all the household's PC's hosted in the cloud, and it is quite a deal. I have a LOT of data. Having offsite backups is mandatory in a backup plan.

http://the-great-waldo.blogspot.com/2010/09/increasing-security.html

Shawn Blanc - David Chartier’s Sweet Mac Setup

I use Time Machine to backup my Macs and my wife’s MacBook to the Time Capsule, ChronoSync to backup key files and media to a secondary external 2TB drive, and CrashPlan as a third layer of remote redundancy.

http://shawnblanc.net/2010/09/chartier-mac-setup/

Web Backup - Backup Software Review

This first backup software review article is about a handy program made by CrashPlan.com that automates the whole process and does not cost you a dime. It is a Swiss army knife of backup, and that is what makes it so great!

http://www.ewebbackup.com/backup-software-review/backup-software-review-backup-to-a-friend-part-one

The Windows Club - CrashPlan backs up your files to local drives, other computers and online

Once your files are backed up, CrashPlan continuously checks that your files are 100% healthy and ready to restore when you need them. If it finds any problems, CrashPlan fixes them. CrashPlan constantly flags changes for backup and then backs them up once a day.

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/crashplan-backs-up-your-files-to-local-drives-other-computers-and-online

Digital Inspiration - Which Online Backup Service Should You Use?

The backup service that has impressed me the most is CrashPlan – it’s available for Mac, Windows and Linux. What’s unique about CrashPlan is that it also can create local backups on other computers that are either owned by you or your friends.

http://www.labnol.org/internet/best-online-backup-services/14218/

Avi Sam Kaplan - Mac Apps and Utilities to Rock Your Work and World – Personal Workflow Series: Mac Edition

Free system backup on an external hard drive or, if you have a paid account, in the cloud (30 day free trial). Do you really want to lose your data? Even if your machine fritzes and you wind up able to get it fixed, you’ll be glad you did this while it’s in the shop.

http://www.avisamkaplan.com/2010/08/mac-apps-and-utilities-to-rock-your-work-and-world-personal-workflow-series-mac-edition

Emily recommends... - Reminder: Backup your Data

Backup can be costly but always put in mind that your important data such as pictures and other documents are priceless so it is worth every penny that you take action to backup your data. [CrashPlan does] exactly what I need. Cheap yet secure, always available, offers both online and offline restore and reliable. They also offer free for 30 days to try.

http://www.emilyrecommends.com/?p=191

Justin Korn [dot] com - CrashPlan: My Offsite Backup Plan

I put it to the test and sure enough it worked! I was amazed. I took full advantage of their one month trial of CrashPlan Central and eventually signed up for a one year subscription. After about 60 days, I am fully backed up in the cloud.

http://blog.justinkorn.com/2010/08/crashplan-my-offsite-backup-plan/

Transient Technology - Diary of a cloud backup – part 5 – Many Months Later

In a nutshell once you have set [CrashPlan] up, you just forget about it. This has to be one of the most important things about backing up. It does not require any maintenance whatsoever. This is encouraging when your several hundred miles away from one of the machines.

http://martinaharris.com/2010/07/diary-of-a-cloud-backup-part-5-many-months-later/

The Occasional Blog - Backups really are important

Personally, I recommend CrashPlan for backups. It’s free software for basic use that lets you backup to any other user of CrashPlan (if they agree) over the Internet.

http://mike.peay.us/blog/archives/733

Allthings-Bare - 8 of the Best Online Backup Services for Linux

For personal use, a free version is available that offers basic functionality. For enterprise, CrashPlan Pro is available with a bunch of powerful features. Data are encrypted using 128-bit encryption for the personal CrashPlan, while 448-bit Blowfish encryption is used for CrashPlan Pro.

http://allthings-bare.blogspot.com/2010/06/8-of-best-online-backup-services-for.html

InformationWeek - Online Storage Buyer's Guide

When it comes to security: You can pick your friends, and you can pick your backup files, but you can't pick your friends' backup files. Your remotely stored archives are secured with an encryption key based either on your CrashPlan account password, a separate password, or for maximum security, your own private key.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/storage/reviews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=225600381&pgno=2

Programming During Recess - Happy with My Backup Service

I specified all of the folders I wanted backed up, and it backed them up without overwhelming my computer or network. I've restored files from the online backup, and this goes smoothly and fairly quickly. CrashPlan is available on Windows and Linux(!) platforms. Plus, you can backup to other computers, to your own or even to a friend's.

http://jdfrens.blogspot.com/2010/06/happy-with-my-backup-service.html

Tekserve - 7 Mac, iPod, and iPhone Travel Tips

If you are going to be traveling for more than a few days, you should bring a portable external hard drive or USB flash drive with you to backup new files on the road. Alternatively, if you'll have reliable Internet access, you can use an online service like MobileMe, DropBox, or CrashPlan (I use all three but CrashPlan is my favorite for backup).

http://www.tekserve.com/store/2383/7_Mac_iPod_and_iPhone_Travel_Tips?front0527

Home Bodies - Top Most Useful Software Packages

Everything is digital. Photos, bank info, and personal info is all kept on your computer. This program is phenomenal. A must have in my opinion. It’s also free.

http://home-bodies.net/wordpress/?p=187

TechPatio - Mozy - Online Backup. Great, Except For Restoring iPhoto & Aperture 3

So far, CrashPlan is my favorite and I’m currently testing it out, I’ve read multiple places about people taking the switch from Mozy to CrashPlan...

http://techpatio.com/2010/apple/mac/review-iphoto-aperture-mozy-online-cloud-backup-mac-restore

This is the technology stone age - Why I switched from Mozy to Crashplan for backup

It doesn’t hog system resources, the online (web) and offline (app) interfaces are smart and easy to use, the feature set of Crashplan is rich and powerful, it backs up external drives and most importantly it works, and it works well.

http://www.walterelly.com/technology/why-i-switched-from-mozy-to-crashplan-for-backup/

INTERACT FORUM - Media Backup Methods

Crashplan can backup to a different computer on your network. This is free! Crashplan can backup to an external hard drive. This is free! Crashplan can backup to your friend's hard drive at his house and he can backup to yours. This is free!

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=57715.0

The Productivity Game - Backup, Solved

I also use CrashPlan to back up my files to another computer in my home that's always on and connected to a big external drive. Using CrashPlan in this way is free.

http://www.theproductivitygame.com/blog/2010/4/16/backup-solved.html

Home Bodies - CrashPlan is My Favorite Choice to Back Up My Computer Files

They offer free backup for use between your personal computers, free backup to your friends or family members’ computers over the internet, and an unlimited backup to CrashPlan’s online storage for a fee. The cost of the unlimited online backup up for an individual computer is $3.50 per month and the family plan is $5.00 per month.

http://home-bodies.net/wordpress/?p=93

Wyszdom - CrashPlan

At the end of my free trial, I intend to purchase the family unlimited plan, which will allow me to back up all of my family’s computers without having to purchase an individual license for each machine.

http://wysz.com/wyszdom/2010/04/crashplan/

SuSMETA - Crashplan

Automatic backups, local backups, cloud backups, backups to friends, free or cheap.... Crashplan has you covered.

http://susmeta.wordpress.com/2010/04/08/crashplan/

Raoul Pop - CrashPlan works for transatlantic backups

Nightmares of re-configuring my parents’ firewall remotely flashed before my eyes… Amazingly enough, I didn’t have to do any of that! It just works! So, if you’re interested in doing this sort of thing, download CrashPlan (it’s multi-platform)...

http://raoulpop.com/2010/04/01/crashplan-works-for-transatlantic-backups/

Martin Tyler's Blog - Mac and Windows Backup Strategy

Another feature of CrashPlan is being able to backup to a local disk, external disk, another machine on your network or even another machine over the Internet, eg a friends machine. All these cost you nothing...

http://blog.boo.org/2010/04/mac-and-windows-backup-strategy.html

Solo Technology - Switching Home Backups to CrashPlan

If you’re looking for a free (or inexpensive cloud) backup option I definitely think CrashPlan is worth a look. Supports Windows, Linux and Mac and even Open Solaris. Good stuff.

http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/2010/04/01/switching-home-backups-to-crashplan/

Softonic - Editor's Review

If you've been put off by backup tools because you're intimidated by how complicated they might be, then you may be pleasantly surprised by CrashPlan. CrashPlan offers...

http://crashplan.en.softonic.com

Blackbeagle - CrashPlan Review – A flexible multi-platform backup solution

[CrashPlan] is one of the few backup solutions that support Windows, Mac, and Linux. It also supports backing up to other computers you own, your friends’ computers, or to CrashPlan’s servers. Off-site backups help protect...

http://www.blackbeagle.com/reviews/crashplan-review-a-flexible-multi-platform-backup-solution/

macosx.com - Review: CrashPlan Backup

It gives you the ability to backup your data fully encrypted to one or more computers whether they are on your local network or located at a distant location over the internet. You and your “friends” as CrashPlan calls them...

http://macosx.com/forums/articles/298557-review-crashplan-backup.html

TidBITS - CrashPlan Central Slashes Hosted Backup Pricing

The price of [online] backups just dropped suddenly with CrashPlan's change to fixed rates for family and individual backups to its CrashPlan Central service. CrashPlan, like several...

http://db.tidbits.com/article/10473

Technically Personal! - Download CrashPlan – Automatic Online Backup

CrashPlan is a free software to back up personal files to your own local and offsite destinations. Your files are encrypted at your choice of multiple offsite destinations. Only offsite backup protects...

http://techpp.com/2009/06/22/download-crashplan-automatic-online-backup/

OnSoftware - Backup any way you want with CrashPlan

We all come-up with poor excuses for not [backing up] - our external drive is full, we don’t have time, we simply forgot etc. but CrashPlan is an application that definitely leaves no room for excuses. These are...

http://en.onsoftware.com/backup-any-way-you-want-with-crashplan/

CNET - Back up your mom with Crashplan

One of the cool things about Crashplan is you can use it as remote backup for off-site safety, but with the first backup happening locally, for speed. For example, I could...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-9680560-2.html

Family First - CrashPlan: a Review

CrashPlan offers a very affordable and innovative way for you to back up your data without having to worry about the specifics. And it will back up to [CrashPlan Central], PLUS you can also back up to any local machine...

http://www.familyfirst.com/crashplan-a-review.html

BabyGotMac - Review: CrashPlan – Easy off-site backup for your Mac

CrashPlan also allows you to send out invites, so if you want to let a roommate or family member backup to one of your machines, you can do so easily, and again, securely. There is also a service they offer called CrashPlan Central, which is hosted on...

http://babygotmac.com/a/review-crashplan-easy-off-site-backup-for-your-mac/

PaulTech Network - Crashplan Offsite Backup

Next, it is really easy to backup and fast to restore data in case of data loss. And, it is an offsite backup! All the files are encrypted while...

http://gopaultech.com/blog/2009/02/crashplan-offsite-backup/

/dev/random - Why I switched to CrashPlan

CrashPlan is the best backup solution I’ve found for several reasons. Like Time Machine, CrashPlan runs continuously in the background. CrashPlan maintains multiple versions of files and can restore a particular version. Unlike many other backup programs...

http://mcdevzone.com/2009/08/11/why-i-switched-to-crashplan/

WebWorkerDaily - CrashPlan, a good offsite data backup option

This is a free service that allows you to transfer unlimited data between two computers with desktop applications for PC, Mac and Linux users. An extremely handy solution...

http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/01/17/crashplan-a-good-offsite-data-backup-option/

TUAW - CrashPlan: Cross-Platform Off-Site Backup

CrashPlan is a cross-platform, off-site backup solution. Basically, their software allows you to schedule remote backups to a separate server. What makes Crashplan different...

http://www.tuaw.com/2007/01/15/crashplan-cross-platform-off-site-backup/

KillerStartups - CrashPlan.com - Automatic Offsite Backup

CrashPlan is a simple and inexpensive backup service which provides automatic offsite backup online or to the computer of your choice. As with any other service, CrashPlan encrypts...

http://www.killerstartups.com/Web-App-Tools/crashplan-com-automatic-offsite-backup

shermanlive - Testing CrashPlan. What’s Your Backup Plan?

A cool advantage to CrashPlan is the software helps you backup to your own drives or to another computer (could be a friend’s computer too – think collaboration!) for FREE. Or you can backup to their cloud (3) with unlimited storage...

http://shermanlive.com/2009/11/26/testing-crashplan-whats-your-backup-plan/

dealmac - Online backup review. Crashplan looks to be the best...

The family plan is unlimited computers and unlimited data. The plans are useable by both Crashplan and Crashplan+. So I'm sold on Crashplan and I purchased a family offsite plan...

http://forums.dealmac.com/read.php?4,2850222

Softpedia - In Case Your Computer Goes Nowak: Everybody else has a CrashPlan

CrashPlan application is an automated backup solution that either uses the CrashPlan Central server or any other machine or device of your choosing. CrashPlan runs quietly in the background, automatically protecting...

http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/windows/CrashPlan-Review-46602.shtml

RobPlatt.com - Backup with CrashPlan

What makes CrashPlan so unique, is that you can back up to your friends, or your other computers, for free, regardless if they’re on your LAN or not. You can back up to multiple sources...

http://www.robplatt.com/index.php/2010/02/28/backup-crashplan/

dooyoo - Protect all your files with little effort and for a low cost. (CrashPlan)

Crashplan is file level backup software which allows home/business to backup files to a variety of locations in an incredibly simple process which could save irreplaceable photos, business critical documents or any other file type you can think of.

http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/applications/crashplan/1226761/

Rural Lawyer - It went bump in the night

It took all of 3 mouse clicks and less than 45 minutes for CrashPlan to do a complete restore from my on-site backup. Had I not wanted instant gratification, I could have restored from my off-site personal cloud in little over 2 hours.

http://rurallawyer.com/2010/02/12/it-went-bump-in-the-night/